[oe] upstart vs. task-proper-tools

Steffen Sledz sledz at dresearch-fe.de
Wed Aug 24 14:57:31 UTC 2011


On 24.08.2011 16:45, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:34:06PM +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>> On 24.08.2011 14:36, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>> W dniu 24.08.2011 14:31, Steffen Sledz pisze:
>>>> BTW: What is the exact meaning/purpose/use of task-proper-tools?
>>> 
>>> Replace busybox components by full versions. Was made years ago and then updated by several people. While working for BugLabs company I used it to create rootfs without busybox.
>>> 
>>>> The list contains a lot of tools with existing alternatives (e.g. syslog-ng vs. rsyslog or pump vs. dhcpcd).
>>> 
>>> Then propose change which will allow to install one of them only at time?
>> 
>> Sorry, but my knowledge is not sufficient to do this. I've no idea how to reference u-a related tools here.
> 
> Why you don't remove task-proper-tools from your images RDEPENDS and add only tools you need which aren't provided by upstart?

task-proper-tools is not directly in our image RDEPENDS but inherited via task-sdk-native (may be via others too).

> or use something like DISTRO_SYSLOG ?= "syslog-ng" in task-proper-tools
> 
> and set DISTRO_SYSLOG = upstart for your distro if distro level granularity is fine for you (all supported images are using upstart).

We do not have an own distro (we use angstrom). It's only a custom image.

And the initial problem is sysvinit vs. upstart which are not u-a but need to be installed exclusively. If i'm right this is done by setting IMAGE_INIT_MANAGER. Can this variable used inside the task-proper-tools RDEPENDS?

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